Sh1nn said:
The consensus among city analysts is that Nintendo needs to act fast to maintain sales momentum. A report on Business Week notes that a weak Yen is boosting the earnings outlook for the platform holder, but the analysts quoted in the piece weren’t quite so positive. “The result is worse than expected,” said Myojo Asset Management’s Makoto Kikuchi. “The company needs to do something to get out from a money-losing structure.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/calls-for-wii-u-price-cut-begin-after-nintendo-financials/
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They're right - Nintendo Wii and Wii sales numbers are gradually lowering as a result of Sony's Playstation 3, and soon-to-come Playstation 4, which are taking its market share - instead of the other way around. There's nothing that Nintendo can do at this point. Playstation 4 is simply a better machine - that's why Nintendo is being phased out. I recommend they leave the console harwdare business altogether. A couple more games and price cuts, what the business analysts in the article suggest, are not going to fix the problem.
Playstation 4's better features:
-x86-based processing, as opposed to Wii's PowerPC. This makes porting games over to Playstation 4 from PC effortless.
-General CPU performance which will be 13 times more powerful then Wii U's CPU.
-The harware is free. No profit is being made by Sony due to harware. Thus the consumer gets a vastly better deal, over $100 more worth of hardware.
-Built-in Blu-Ray player - Wii U doesn't have a built-in Blu-Ray player
-Massive, worldwide developer support, especially in Europe. Wii U has virtually no European support. Already Sony has developers in Finland, Germany, England, and even France working on PS4 games.